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Re: Are we all looking at the same PGP 5.5 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Tue Oct 7 12:14:21 1997
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:04:32 +0100
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: tnh@acm.org
CC: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: <l03102803b05edecc54cd@[24.128.32.64]> (tnh@acm.org)
Timothy Hill <tnh@acm.org> writes:
>
> 1. These corporate features are not new to PGP. Before PGP, Inc., when
> ViaCrypt had the commercial rights to PGP software, ViaCrypt produced a
> version that had the same sort of features.
Yeah. And Phil Zimmermann cried foul about it, and tried to use it as
a basis for revoking their exclusive license to commercially exploit
PGP. That was before PGP Inc was able to acquire Lemcom (then owner
of Viacrypt).
Adam
